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Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Online Passwords
mytrip writes "Privacy advocates are questioning an aggressive Georgia law set to take effect Thursday that would require sex offenders to hand over Internet passwords, screen names and e-mail addresses. Georgia joins a small band of states complying with guidelines in a 2006 federal law requiring authorities to track Internet addresses of sex offenders, but it is among the first to take the extra step of forcing its 16,000 offenders to turn in their passwords as well."
Part of the condition of their release from prison is that they give up rights that you and I take for granted and treasure. They wanted to put their dick where it didn't belong so much that they were willing to risk those rights. They gambled and lost, so to hell with them. I hope they put RFID chips in them and track them like the animals they are.
This country doesn't belong to you, and the populace has spoken as a group to disagree with you. We aren't going to get out of our country, whose laws have worked this way for 200 years, just because you don't like it. If you want this to change, stop whining on the internet, and start voting and campaigning. The vast bulk of sex offenders in this country are rapists - more than 95%, if you look at the numbers. A judge can suspend the requirement to turn over identifying information pending appeal. If a person is required to do this for peeing in a public place, they need to talk to a judge on the telephone. Very simple, very easy, very free.
Sex offenders who aren't appallingly evil people have options. Just because you don't know what those options are doesn't mean other, more sensible people need to start leaving the country just because you're riled up about a system you don't understand.
Name one person who's been forced to turn over their passwords for peeing in public, and I'll name a judge who doesn't have a future on the bench. Until then, masturbating hypotheticals into the conversation doesn't invent problems in a system you have very little information about.
No. Name one such person, and I will personally call the circuit judge and fix it. Otherwise, drop it.
StoneCypher is Full of BS
stop being so fucking spinless.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Yeah, that minority of violent rapists really needs to be protected from the majority, who don't even know who they are. Can you point to any part of the constitution, or any check or balance, which applies to the rights of sex offenders to operate without supervision? Because frankly this sounds like FUD to me.
Or maybe you're not familiar with the word "oppression", which applies a lot better to the victims of the rapists than the rapists themselves. Are you aware that the average released rapist spends less than a year on the outside before being hauled in for their next rape attempt?
There's a point beyond which you should be informed before speaking up. Dealing with sex offenders is well beyond that point.
StoneCypher is Full of BS
Child molesters should never be in the justice system to begin with. They are mentally ill and there is no cure for their particular problem. The point being that they should be kept for the rest of their lives in secure mental health facilities and not treated as criminals in any way.
On the other hand people who get all bent out of shape over a weenie waiver or a drunk taking a pee need to be forced to get help as these things should not excite or offend normal people very much.
Wow. I found one guy. One. It's a god damn injustice of mammoth proportions! Oh my GOD!